Sentences with phrase «many large high schools»

(Regeneron, by the way, just announced it'll spend $ 100 million over the next decade to sponsor the nation's largest high school science competition.)

«We should be focused on arming law enforcement,» said Mr. Scott, who has proposed helping school districts pay for an armed police officer or sheriff's deputy at every school, and for every 1,000 students in large high schools.

During the last week of December, from Dec. 28 - 30, a number of these schools will be host sites to the largest high school girls basketball tournament event in the country — the West Coast Jamboree, which in its 18th year will include more than 160 teams.

But last week they also knew that if they hadn't blown a 10 - point lead with four minutes to play against Kokomo High in January, they and not New Castle High, whose 9,325 - seat field house is the largest high school gym in the world, would have been unbeaten and ranked No. 1 in the state.

Concord is fortunate to be the selected host for the West Coast Jamboree — the largest high school girls» basketball tournament in the country, welcoming 128 teams from around the country.

Sac Joaquin is the second largest high school section in the state and one of the most competitive.

I came from a large high school in Wisconsin where I was captain my senior year and continued on to play Div.

The most recent statistics from the National Athletic Training Association suggest that almost 4 out of 10 U.S. high schools still do not have access to an athletic trainer (although this statistic may be somewhat misleading, as the percentage of high school students with AT coverage is higher, perhaps as high as 70 %, due to the fact that larger high schools in more densely populated states are much more likely to have one or mor athletic trainers on staff), and the likelihood that trained personnel will be present during games or practices at the youth level is low).

I am the school nurse at a large high school in Arizona.

Several other large high schools in the area, including Maine South in Park Ridge and Barrington, use a homeroom program to help students develop an affinity for the school and classmates.

I am a cafe manager for a very large high school in Georgia and everyone in North Gerogia can rest assured the «slime» has NEVER entered our system nor will it ever.

Arlington Heights - based Township High School District 214, the state's second - largest high school district, is one system that's pushing back.

Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School is one of the largest high schools in Broward County, according to the Sun - Sentinel.

While Bergtraum will not close, as many other large high schools have during Mayor Bloomberg's education reform, the struggling school will undergo «enrollment reduction».

More than 700,000 students in more than 1,200 New York City schools — including large high schools in all five boroughs — would face higher class sizes, have fewer teachers and lose after - school academic and enrichment programs if President - elect Trump makes good on a campaign promise to pull billions of federal dollars away from public schools to pay for private vouchers, a UFT analysis has found.

Washington Heights Armory Hosts School Tech Fair The 2018 NYC Computer Science Opportunity Fair is the largest high school technology fair in the city.

It's the world's largest high school science competition.

The school is one of several new schools with vocational and academic themes established as part of the 196,000 - student district's efforts to break up larger high schools into...

A career academy is a small learning community within a larger high school, comprising a team of teachers who work with the same group of students during grades 10 - 12 or 9 - 12.

Many urban educators complained that the large high school was simply too big to work and too impersonal to reach every child, much less hundreds of children.

That was Alejandro Piñeda's reaction after his first visit to the Fremont High School Business Academy, in Oakland, California, a small learning environment operating within a larger high school.

As one of the largest high schools in the state, with 730 students, Contoocook Valley is a frequent target of recruiters from the various branches of the armed forces.

Jointly conducted by two prominent research organizations, the study charts the progress of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's effort to support the launch of hundreds of new, small high schools and convert hundreds of large high schools into smaller units.

Earlier this year, Peter Meyer described the efforts of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to fix high schools in New York City by converting large high schools into smaller schools.

Young eventually rose to become principal of the system's largest high school before being named assistant superintendent in 1887.

McLeod, Indian Island's principal, said that although she thinks there may be some cultural clashes and bias at the area high schools, the main problem is that her school's graduates feel overwhelmed when they leave the 114 - student Indian Island School for a larger high school.

During Bloomberg's administration, more than 120 small, non-selective high schools replaced large high schools in the city's poorest neighborhoods.

Ninth grade centers, where students are moved out of the large high school for the transition year, also seem to help.

Students recognized by NHRP are more likely to live in cities and attend large high schools with significantly more low - income and Hispanic students, compared to white students with similarly strong PSAT / NMSQT scores.

Most public high school parents and their children's teachers say breaking up large high schools into smaller ones would help educators identify troubled students and make the schools more welcoming places, according to the results of a survey released last week.

My high school was reduced to a middle school in the 1970s, as black and white students merged into one large high school.

Large high schools, instead of enabling every student to find a comfortable niche, tend to be places where the most driven and outgoing — and often the most privileged — students benefit from the rich array of resources and opportunities.

As more large high schools nationwide break down into smaller learning communities or schools, many have created «career academies» that organize curricula around themes such as health professions, the law, or the performing arts.

At a large high school like Jamaica, the demands of the school day make it nearly impossible to give these deeply troubled kids the kind of individual attention and support they need.

Cushman: Large high schools; schools organized in such a way that teachers must be responsible for more than 80 students; and a policy environment that reduces students to what can be known about them through a single multiple - choice test.

It was a large high school with hundreds of teachers.

But as large high schools shrink, they lose the benefits that a comprehensive high school provides.

This research adds to evidence that the strategy to replace large high schools with smaller ones increased student achievement significantly and at great scale.

That execution, in those early years, meant large grants to school districts — $ 25 million to Seattle alone — that said they would break large high schools into many small ones.

It could also be that more young men are attracted to the athletic programs at the large high schools, or to CTE initiatives at a place like Phelps.

The article discusses the reorganization of large high schools into small learning communities (SLCs) under the U.S. federal Smaller Learning Community Program and provides five lessons from schools» transitions.

Before becoming education secretary in 2009, Arne Duncan was chief executive of the Chicago Public Schools, which received $ 20 million from Gates to break up several large high schools and create smaller versions, a move aimed at stemming the dropout rate.

Raúl Sital is principal of Pasco High School, the largest high school in Washington state's Tri-Cities, and serves on the Education Northwest Board of Directors.

Under that strategy they tried to achieve reform by paying school districts to break - up larger high schools into smaller ones.

In this publication — a joint effort of WKCD, the Bronx New Century High Schools, and the Carnegie Corporation — two dozen students in Bronx, NY talk about their experiences planning and attending small schools and breaking down large high schools.

It posed two questions: (1) are larger high schools less costly to build than smaller schools and (2) what contextual variables predict cost?

Other high schools in Boston offer Small Learning Communities (SLCs), which provide small, supportive learning environments within a larger high school.

In Boston, JFF serves as fiscal agent for the Gates Foundation Small Schools grant, assists the High School Renewal Office in supporting the development of SLCs, and organizes peer learning opportunities across large high schools, small schools, Pilot schools, and alternative schools.

Excerpt from the Abstract: Large high schools have frequently been broken up into schools within a school (SWAS) serving 200 - 500 students.

Illinois» largest high school district violated federal law by barring a transgender student from using the girls» locker room, authorities concluded Monday.